Seventh Annual IT Awards Honor Doreen Wright Of Campbell Soup Company Frank Sanchez Of Fidelity National Information Services
Philadelphia- March 29, 2007- Temple University’s Fox School of Business and Management is honoring three top technology leaders at its Seventh Annual Fox Information Technology Awards on Wednesday, April 18. Awardees include Doreen A. Wright, senior vice president and chief information officer, Campbell Soup Company; Frank R. Sanchez, president of Enterprise Solutions, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.; and Fox alumnus Daniel T. Garrett (BBA ‘79), a consultant to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC).
The awards will be presented during a reception at 5:30pm in Mitten Hall, on Temple University’s main campus. This event is organized by The Fox School’s Department of Management Information Systems (MIS), its Irwin L. Gross Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT), and the Association for Management Information Systems.
Wright will receive the Fox Information Technology Leader Award for leadership in the use and development of IT in business, and Sanchez will receive the Fox Information Technology Innovator Award for applying IT to create business opportunities. Garrett will receive the Fox Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni, given in recognition of an individual’s distinguished career in information technology and their contribution to the community, industry or Temple University. The event will also recognize excellence in leadership among the school’s MIS faculty, administration and student body.
“These awards recognize outstanding role models in industry for our students, leaders and innovators who are creating business opportunities by guiding the use and development of IT business,” said Munir Mandviwalla, chair of the MIS department. The high caliber of the recipients also reflects the growing stature of the MIS programs at Temple, which have been previously ranked by Computerworld and recognized by the Eastern Technology Council.
Wright, winner of the Fox Information Technology award was appointed Campbell’s senior vice president and chief information officer in 2001. She is responsible for directing global systems strategy and planning, application development and support, infrastructure, and the telecommunications network at Campbell Soup Company.
Before joining Campbell, Wright was executive vice president and chief information officer at Nabisco. Her career began at Merrill Lynch, managing several retail client service and processing units. Wright currently serves on the board of directors of the Riverside Symphonia in Lambertville, N.J. For the past 3 years, she served on the board of Yankee Candle Company. Also, Wright is a trustee of the Campbell Soup Foundation, which supports organizations that inspire change in the communities where Campbell Soup Company operates—especially the company’s birthplace, Camden, N.J.
Sanchez, winner of the Fox Information Technology Innovator, is responsible for the strategy, architecture and development of the banking suite of products, including core banking, integration and channel solutions offered to top-tier North American banks by Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS). He also has responsibility for the automotive finance business and the commercial lending businesses within FIS. He designed and built the industry’s first highly scalable real-time banking system, which has successfully been installed in hundreds of financial institutions spanning 17 countries. Also, he launched the first Internet Banking application service provider in 1998, and in 2001, he deployed the industry’s first core banking system on a Linux platform.
Garrett, winner of the Fox IT Award for Distinguished Alumni, serves on several industry boards and consults to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on the national initiative to measure and report quality and performance information on the US healthcare industry. Previously, he was the vice president and managing partner of Computer Science Corporation’s Global Health Solutions (GHS) practice where he was responsible for leading all healthcare activities across CSC worldwide.
He is also a founding member and vice chairman of the National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology and serves as executive chairman of the Markle Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Connecting for Health” initiative. Garrett is also on the board of the eHealthInitiative, the National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology and has served on the board of trustees of the Malcolm Baldridge Foundation.
“The Fox School’s Information Technology Awards have become a tradition in the Greater Philadelphia region’s IT community,” said M. Moshe Porat, dean of The Fox School. “Through our innovative programs and by integrating Management Information Systems into teaching, learning and research, we are responding to the needs of the industry within this region and educating the IT leaders of tomorrow.”
The Fox School’s MIS Department focuses on research and teaching on the use, management and development of organizational information systems. The department focuses on the concept of integration to guide its curriculum and research. The Irwin L. Gross Institute for Business and Information Technology enables business technology education and research by organizing professional development activities, research workshops, and other activities.
Temple University’s Fox School of Business is the largest, most comprehensive business school in the greater Philadelphia region and among the largest in the world, with almost 6,000 students, 150 full-time faculty members and 50,000 alumni.
For the third consecutive year, the Financial Times ranked The Fox School’s MBA among the Top 10 programs in the U.S. for “Value for Money” and as one of the Top 10 programs among public urban universities in the U.S. Also, this year U.S. News and World Report ranked Fox School’s undergraduate Risk, Management and Insurance program in the Top 5 in the U.S. and its undergraduate International Business program in the Top 10 in the U.S. Entrepreneur magazine and Princeton Review jointly ranked The Fox School’s undergraduate Entrepreneurship program in the Top 5 in the U.S. and its graduate Entrepreneurship program in the Top 10. The Fox School of Business is accredited by AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).
